Additional to yesterday’s publish, contemplate the next quote from the current New Yorker article about Grant Petersen:
“Bikes are turning ugly,” Petersen just lately wrote. “I personally have extra respect, tons of respect, for anyone who rides round city, to work, for procuring, and for enjoyable, than anyone who does front-flips on handrails with a fifty-foot dropoff on one facet.”
What? Ridiculous!!! Biking isn’t about enjoyable or about usefulness, it’s about performing death-defying stunts on bicycles of restricted utility as a way to promote overpriced clothes and overcaffeinated swill on the identical time:
Right here’s the video:
Eh, frankly in the case of action-packed movies that mix bikes and trains I favor ones that characteristic Bromptons:
Now that’s what I name suspense.
Generally you screw the watermelon:
And different instances it screws you.
Talking of on a regular basis biking, the smuggies are actually pushing the concept that e-bike share journeys must be cheaper, and now a metropolis councilmember is introducing a invoice that may cap the price of an e-Citi Bike journey:
I’m all for Citi Bike, and it’s factor that folks have the choice to decide on electrical ones, however I’ve not modified my opinion, which is that NOBODY OWES YOU A CHEAP RIDE ON A GODDAMN E-CITI BIKE. Who the hell cares what they value? E-Citi Bikes didn’t even exist till about six years in the past. Now immediately they’re a fundamental human proper and we’d like a legislation in order that they value the identical because the subway? Properly, right here’s what the councilperson has to say:
I promise you that completely no one in New York Metropolis is making their main life selections based mostly completely on Citi Bikes, electrical or in any other case, although I do suspect Lincoln Restler is complicated the best way regular folks stay with the comedian subplots of ’90s sitcoms:
I additionally promise you that they don’t seem to be changing automobile journeys in any significant approach:
In actual fact, satirically, e-Citi Bikes are inflicting extra site visitors as a result of they require a fleet of drivers to service them:
After all in Restler’s sitcom universe capping the worth of Citi Bike will magically end result within the expensive building of an unlimited underground electrical system that can substitute the van fleet. This magic is known as “public funding,” and it’ll repair the whole lot. Don’t imagine it? Simply have a look at what nice form the MTA is in! It’s doing so splendidly these identical smuggies are telling us that it may possibly’t operate with out congestion pricing:
I get that it’s modern to imagine in a future by which drivers paradoxically abandon their vehicles and but one way or the other fund a motor vehicle-free transportation utopia with their tolls, however I’m starting to surprise if the relative lack of public funding the system receives is the one factor that’s saving it.
Within the meantime, for those who’re searching for an affordable e-Citi Bike simply come to the Bronx and assist your self, they’re completely all over the place:
Simply make certain to convey a spoke wrench.
Talking of mixing procuring and enjoyable, I did simply that yesterday, and on certainly one of Previous Man Petersen’s bikes besides:
Using the paths in a populous space typically requires you to share the path with people who find themselves strolling canine:
Or, much less typically, birds:
I suppose he simply desires to present it some contemporary air, but when something it appears needlessly merciless, like marching a prisoner by the city sq.:
Positive, typically after I’m using a motorbike on this city I too really feel like a caged hen:
However a minimum of it’s simple to park.
